I helped found the National Association of Colored Women (NACW) and served as its first president. I collaborated with Ida B. Wells-Barnett on anti-lynching efforts and advocated for women’s suffrage, even picketing the Wilson White House.
I was a founding member of the NAACP and co-founded the National Association of University Women. My work connected me with various organizations to promote civil rights and racial uplift.
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I was a key figure in the fight for racial equality and women’s suffrage. I founded the NACW and served as its first president, campaigned against lynching, and advocated for women’s voting rights, including picketing the Wilson White House.
I co-founded the NAACP and the National Association of University Women. I published my autobiography in 1940 and successfully challenged segregation in public places at age 86, resulting in a Supreme Court ruling against segregated eating facilities.
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As a result of my activism, I played a key role in several significant constitutional advancements.
I was instrumental in the founding of the NAACP, which fought for civil rights, and my efforts contributed to the Supreme Court ruling in 1953 that declared segregated eating facilities unconstitutional.
This landmark decision was a major victory in the fight against racial segregation and discrimination